公开(公告)号：US5641154A

公开(公告)日：1997-06-24

申请号：US431329

申请日：1995-04-27

申请人： Peter Gysling ,  Daniel R. Sammartino

发明人： Peter Gysling ,  Daniel R. Sammartino

IPC分类号： B65H1/26 ,  B65H3/00 ,  B65H3/06 ,  B65H3/44

CPC分类号： B65H3/44

摘要： A system for providing a hard copy machine with a variety of cut sheet media trays having differing sheet stack capacities is demonstrated. A tray selector mechanism is provided in the media tray docking bay of the hard copy machine. Each tray is provided with sheet separating and picking devices and an interface coupling for engaging the tray devices to the tray selector mechanism. In the exemplary embodiment, a full height tray, that is one which occupies the entire docking bay, allows a maximum capacity of a single media type to be loaded for use in making hard copies. A number of smaller, lesser capacity trays can be substituted for the full height tray in the docking bay, each having a different media type. The tray selector mechanism is then operative to select between the lesser capacity trays on end user demand. A default position of the tray selector mechanism is provided.

摘要翻译： 证明了一种用于为硬拷贝机提供具有不同纸张堆叠容量的各种切片介质托盘的系统。 纸盘选择器机构设置在硬拷贝机的介质托盘对接托架中。 每个托盘设置有片材分离和拾取装置以及用于将托盘装置接合到托盘选择器机构的接口联接件。 在示例性实施例中，全高度托盘，即占据整个对接托架的全高托盘允许加载单个介质类型的最大容量以用于制作硬拷贝。 许多较小的较小容量的托盘可以代替对接托架中的全高托盘，每个托盘具有不同的介质类型。 然后，托盘选择器机构可操作以在最终用户需求上在较小容量的托盘之间进行选择。 提供了纸盘选择器机构的默认位置。